When Jack Whitehall had his front door stolen in Fallowfield, he did what any self-respecting student would do. He taped a bin bag to the door frame and carried on as normal. Similarly, when a lightbulb went, he and his housemates just resigned themselves to that room being ‘just for the daytime’.
One of the UK’s most well-known stand-up comedians has much more in common with his character JP, the feckless posh boy from Fresh Meat - the Channel 4 student sitcom penned by Succession creator Jesse Armstrong - than you might think.
He says that when his landlord came to get the keys back from them as they were about to move out, he actually ‘started welling up’ on seeing what they’d done to the place. “It was disrespectful,” he admits.
